oversanguine

Suppose you are by nature rather oversanguine or overdespondent, and you make no genuine attempt to evolve that nature into poise.

Applied Psychology for Nurses

He is foolishly oversanguine who predicts an easy victory over such a people, intrenched amidst mountains and hills.

The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer

Already American merchants have established themselves at the mouth of the Amoor, and, unless Mr. Collins is oversanguine, a great trade is to spring up between the Californians and their opposite neighbors on the eastern coast of Asia.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860

The inventor, the promoter, the salesman, and the oversanguine manager do not always foresee such things.

Industrial Progress and Human Economics

Sometimes, however, he seemed to her oversanguine; though he had worked hard, his success had come too easily, had been too uniform.

The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete

I think that those are oversanguine who believe that there will be no falling back.

Postscript

It follows that the policy of the North in raising and organising its armies had at first to be a policy evolved between numerous independent authorities which never met and were held together by a somewhat ignorant public opinion, sometimes much depressed and sometimes, which was worse, oversanguine.

Abraham Lincoln

Alan was not oversanguine, although Fred Skane declared Bandmaster's task was easier than The Duke's.

The Rider in Khaki A Novel

So my search was carried now to Geneva, and it might be possible to come upon my people there, although I was not oversanguine.

The Passenger from Calais

Let us not be oversanguine of a speedy, final triumph.

Abraham Lincoln; His Life and Its Lessons